KINGS SILVER JUBILEE

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21417, 8 March 1935, Page 11

KINGS SILVER JUBILEE

j I Thanksgiving Service Arranged j j COLLECTS ADOPTED BY i FREE CHURCHES 1 (I'SirKlJ I'HESS ASSOCIATION'—BY F.I,.KCT.IUC t 'rKLELKAPII COPY RIGHT.) (Received March 7, 10 p.m.) LONDON, March 6. 2 The Privy Council has decided :> that the jubilee thanksgiving ser- - vice on May 6 will open with the : first verse of the National Anthem, followed by the hymn. "All. People " That on Earth Do Dwell." Then will 1 come Psalms 95 and 121. 1 The lessons will be from the first " chapter of Joshua, verses 7, 8. and 9, '' and from Revelations, chapter 21, 3 verses 10, 11, 23, and 24, followed • by a short address. The other , hymns will be of thanksgiving, t There will be four prayers, some - from his Majesty's accession ser--7 vice, including one appealing for 1 true fellowship and brotherly conl cord in the King's Dominions in all parts of the earth. I The service will conclude with - the Te Deum and more hymns, and i the first and third verses of the i National Anthem. ; "The Times," in a leader, praises the new thanksgiving collects, written for the jubilee service. It says they are fully worthy to stand . by the old prayers. Moreover, they mark a valuable step towards Christian unify, as the free churches are adopting them for their own ser- ■ vices.—"The Times" Cable. [ REVIEW OF FLEET IN JULY PARI' OF JL'HIIjEE (EI.DURATIONS RUGBY. March (i. ! As part of the celebrations to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the King's accession a review of the combined Home and Mediterranean Fleets will be held at Spithead in July. After the review it is hoped that the King, in his yacht Victoria and Albert, will lead the fleet to sea and watch tactical exercises. For a week during May several ships of the Home Fleet will be prei sent off Southend and some, rt is j hoped, will be moored in the Thames I to allow the public to see them.